a badly spoiled masterpiece

Rating: 5/10 (23 September 2016)

I would love to give this 10 out of 10. Its the closest Hollywood has ever come close to realistic manga (with CGI)(AFAIK - the previous Godzilla films were too much Hollywood and not enough manga). Lets face it, the big draw of this film is big robots vs. big monsters a la the well loved Godzilla. Those parts are perfectly implemented. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THEM and I'm v.critical. Where the film fails, uncommonly for Del Torro, is the effeminate screenplay and bad acting. Idris Elba & Ron Perlman are excellent but others are wishy-washy and the scientists are terrible - which I cannot believe from the guy who made the excellent Hellboy.
There is way way too much touchy-feely talky talky and girly stuff. The fact the film makers missed was that girly girls are not ever going to flock to giant monster/robot films. So all you managed to do was alienate the majority of the potential audience. I feel VERY VERY let down by the glaring flaws in the run-of-the-mill areas of the film-making.
I really hope the next film plays to its strengths - there's a big worldwide audience for that, and the potential technical achievement of 'reality' Manga is a world first.